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I understand that once a person has started a career, switching to a totally different career comes at a high price, so I suppose that instead I should ask "Why do you think that a person would choose to become a teacher, if he didn't expect the satisfaction of teaching to make up for the relatively low pay?" The pay isn't a secret and teaching generally requires a college education, which implies the opportunity to pick a different major and then start a different career.
I knew a woman from a poor background who was the first person in her family to go to college. She chose a major in English and a minor in Women's Studies. I'm not saying that English majors can never get well-paying jobs, but I come from a "you can pick any career you want - doctor or lawyer" background so I was very surprised by her decision. Why would a person who didn't have any money pick to study something that isn't great for earning money? But she wasn't stupid - she really liked English literature... Maybe she ended up working as a teacher.
Because we force people to decide their life’s career track at age 17, before the brain is finished developing and you don’t know shit about self-sufficiency and careers and money.
A lot of people tend to want to study things they're interested in, even if it doesn't lead to a high paying job. You said yourself she was interested in English literature so that's why she went with that as her major. It's also a lot easier to learn and study something you actually care about than something you find boring or are just doing it to get paid. Like if I went to college, I'd find film studies classes or possibly some math ones way more for me cause I like that stuff, but if you tried to force me to take classes to become a doctor, lawyer, or trade school I'd flunk out hard and/or struggle to even get a passing grade.
I mean even from a pure market-based perspective, there is currently a teacher shortage and class sizes are too big, therefore we should pay teachers more to move up the supply curve. But also labor is not a textbook supply-demand curve anyways and is inelastic.